The Other Side of You

They woke up in each other's bodies. They don't know why. They don't know how long it will last. They only know they were already breaking before the impossible thing began.

Eli and Margot have been together two years. He runs a used bookshop on Main Street. She lectures on art history at the college. They share a house in Ashford, Vermont and the particular silence of two people who have stopped saying the hard thing.

One October morning, they wake up wrong.

He is in her body — her anxiety pressing down like weather, her mother's voice in the phone call she dreads, her body that she's spent years making small, that flinches when touched. She is in his — his grief, the drawer he's kept locked for four years, the weight behind his ribs that she's been pressing against without knowing what it was.

They have to live each other's lives. Go to each other's jobs. Answer when someone calls their name. And somewhere in the vertigo of inhabiting each other's skin, they discover the truths they'd been too afraid to say out loud.

The swap doesn't come with a rulebook. It comes with the terrifying, intimate knowledge that the only way back is through each other — and that the person they thought they knew has been living inside a private world they never asked to see.

A contemporary romance with one impossible thing. No mythology. No magic system. Just two people who stopped seeing each other, and one inexplicable October that forces them to.

Content warnings: Anxiety disorder, body dysmorphia, grief (unprocessed loss of a parent), emotional unavailability, explicit sexual content.

Tropes: body swap · established relationship in crisis · forced vulnerability · slow burn rekindling · dual POV

Book 1 of The Impossible Things. Can be read as a standalone. Each book in the series features a different impossible thing — and the couple who has to live through it.

For fans of atmospheric paranormal romance and reality-bending love stories.

Free with this complete series.